{"id":33231,"date":"2022-02-01T21:54:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=33231"},"modified":"2022-02-01T21:54:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:54:54","slug":"the-stress-free-charms-of-boating-around-britains-canal-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2022\/02\/01\/the-stress-free-charms-of-boating-around-britains-canal-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The stress-free charms of boating around Britain’s canal system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Everyone seems to have found their own ways of dealing with COVID quarantine, whether it’s learning a language, practicing an instrument, baking a lot of sourdough bread, or doing Wordle puzzles. One of the things I got obsessed with for a little while — to the point where I was watching at least one or two videos a day, or letting them play on a second monitor while I was working — is what some call “narrow boating.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s when you own (or rent) a canal boat and spend your days or weekends driving around Britain’s massive canal system at slow speed, just watching the countryside go by. They are called “narrow” boats because that’s exactly what they are — in order to pass through all of the locks between canals, a boat can’t be any wider than seven feet, and it can’t be any longer than about sixty feet. So what you get is a long, thin mobile home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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